2010:365:234 Holidays are for ...

.... rest.

Sunday ... a day of rest.  

A different day.  

Time set aside for physical and mental refreshment and for spiritual renewal. 

“…the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.  By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing, so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.  And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy…” Genesis 2:1-2 (NIV).

The early photographs are again from the Manse Road shore … beautiful dawn.

“This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. “  

Psalm 118:24

First of the week and finest day,

when God commanded light to shine:

cast darkness and its works away

to celebrate with bread and wine.

First of the week was Easter morn

when Christ the Lord from death was raised;

new life, fresh hope that day was born

and God in heaven and earth was praised.

First of the week the Spirit came

to fill the Church with grace and power;

the rushing wind and tongues of flame

were heralds of that promised hour.

First of the week we set aside

to meet, to learn, to give to pray;

to spread Christ's gospel far and wide –

in truth, this is the Lord’s own day!

Church Hymnal number 74

David Mowbray (b. 1938)